Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2018-02-20

Part VIII. Selected GNOME Applications

GNOME Libraries and
Utilities

The objective of this section is not to build a GNOME desktop, because it depends on
systemd, which BLFS doesn't support.
Rather, it provides packages required for some platform independent
GNOME applications to build and run
properly under any Window Manager (e.g. Fluxbox, Icewm,
Openbox, Sawfish), or Desktop Environment (e.g.
KDE, XFCE, LXDE).